Mission Memories

As I was thinking about the fun times and incidents from college, thoughts of the craziness on my mission crept in, so I decided to make a post for those experiences.

Matching super-stripe soccer shorts; convincing the elders that we really couldn't play futbol americanski; Rita's; Lido; sugar day; hot, fresh cheese bread; leaving home in a hurry...and managing to forget a few VERY important things; Sister Pettit...and Sister Pettit; bathing out of pots (or the toilet, ewww!); Taaaaape; Ligo; Reenok (avoiding the elders at the reenok); watching the slippery spot in front of the Tallinn hotel; riding the glass elevator in Riga; wearing pajama pants under our tights; "Excuse me, but you are speaking very bad Russian"; matching slippers; stay off manhole covers!; don't eat ice cream on a hot day; our little stationary shop; pabkas; the motorcycle accident; the cyclist getting hit by a car; the man with 3 holes in his head; hidden valley in Vilnius; the creepy funeral in the creepy building; missionary vacation; alphabet scones; pauser/leaner; laughing too hard to finish the district leader call; couch cushions on the floor; double doors; morning study in strange places; the night the discoteque came to us; nakoma pietura; getting jaked by the bus; men in underwear--at the door and at baptisms; baptisms in the river; Jurmala; packed busses; roaches and banana bread; Bobs on the Tide; remonting; pulling the drunk out from under a train; Smints; listov; pillow room; Saturday night dates; Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's in the MTC; Pampers; Girls' camp at the dacha; Stockmann's; Minima, Media, Maxima; the man pooping at the clock tower in Riga; Statdogs; Estrella chips; Cido juices; yogurt and cornflakes; mouse cheese; Karunas; Kalev chocolate; The Compressor--(Oh, how I MISS this place!); Old Hansa; The Garlic Restaurant; harvesting; rose-mint tea; "Clayzer-blazer"; Texicana & smetana; Baltic tacos; New Year's at the Rigby's; sitting in the sauna; Christmas mass...in Estonian...with strange lit-up rocks...at a little church in the middle of nowhere; Romeo and Juliet on Valentine's Day; zephyrs; coat from Nina Adams; little yellow and dancing ducks; ...and there are more, but I'm out of time for the moment.

**OK--here are a few more: FLEAS, FLEAS, FLEAS!; the man pooping by the clock tower in Riga--so shocking and gross!; little boy pooping on the chapel floor in the middle of sacrament meeting in Vilnius; kids with green owies; mesh shirts/dresses to church...